Just a thought I have been experimenting with using twitter to provide river level updates as I live right on the Llugwy and regularly drive past other North Wales rivers. Would this be useful to people or am I just wasting my time? Is it worth getting some tech type person to integrate this into this site so that people could get to the information easily and lots of people could all contribute? Playak have integrated twitter into peoples personal profiles but I was thinking of more than this. Interested in peoples thoughts? Just bash allfreeoutdoors into twitter if you want to check it out.

How about just an archive of all rivers on here (contributions welcome) split into say regions and if you fancy paddling it on a given day just go to the river listed and hopefully someone has put up some current info for everyone.....something to think about for the contollers here, you could even book an "up to date" slot if you know when you want to paddle and recieve the info real time.

stewarty905 wrote:How about just an archive of all rivers on here (contributions welcome) split into say regions and if you fancy paddling it on a given day just go to the river listed and hopefully someone has put up some current info for everyone.....something to think about for the contollers here, you could even book an "up to date" slot if you know when you want to paddle and recieve the info real time.

stewarty905 wrote:How about just an archive of all rivers on here (contributions welcome) split into say regions and if you fancy paddling it on a given day just go to the river listed and hopefully someone has put up some current info for everyone.....something to think about for the contollers here, you could even book an "up to date" slot if you know when you want to paddle and recieve the info real time.

Been here long?

I assume Matt was referring to the regional updates forum, where you'll find topics for every river with a guide on the site. If you want to report river levels for a specific river then please use it! There are also some dedicated topics in this such as the Dart levels thread or the ones I've created for the NE/NW regions. These seem to be working reasonably well, but as with any of these non-automated online systems they are dependant on contributions from users. Having someone who lives next to a river is very useful if they are prepared to update the topic all the time (eg Steve for the Tees).

The twitter thing sounds like a good idea, but this site is run by unpaid unsponsored volunteers (unlike playak) so I doubt any of us could afford the time to do this.

Easiest way to publish on a website would be using RSS: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23ukrgb or any number of plugins designed for the purpose.
The more paddling websites to add a feed to the twitter river levels the more popular / successful it would be.

The reason I was thinking twitter was that it can simply be updated with a txt from a mobile therefor cheep and fast it can be done as I drive past a river on my way to work. I think the long term aim is that twitter will txt you updates straight to your mobile at no cost to you. At least I think that is how it works in other countries. Also means that you are not proving to all your non paddling mates on facebook that you are completely obsessed.

I was just interested to see if people thought it was a good idea or not and something we could all benefit from.

The reason I was thinking twitter was that it can simply be updated with a txt from a mobile therefor cheep and fast it can be done as I drive past a river on my way to work. I think the long term aim is that twitter will txt you updates straight to your mobile at no cost to you. At least I think that is how it works in other countries. Also means that you are not proving to all your non paddling mates on facebook that you are completely obsessed.

I was just interested to see if people thought it was a good idea or not and something we could all benefit from.

Dude,

Its a quality idea, and fair play to you, just set it up and off you go. Job done.

All credit to Mark G for taking on yet another technical mountain behind the scenes at UKRGB, purely on his own initiative. These days he pretty well does everything short of carrying the server around on his shoulders.

Mark R wrote:All credit to Mark G...
These days he pretty well does everything short of carrying the server around on his shoulders.

Not quite true, I don't pay the hosting bill or do any guide updates.

Does anyone out there understand Twitter? Do we need the register the #ukrgb hashtag at hashtags.org or anywhere? Will this give us any benefits?

Thanks to all those who have taken the time to show there appreciation. Those of you who have decided to follow me on twitter may be very disappointed as I cant see how I will ever use it, but I may surprise myself.

All comments welcome, but don't expect a speedy response. It's the paddling season!